Does anyone else have Reynolds Phenomenon?

Do you mean Raynaud's?

Do you mean Raynauds? If so, then yup, I've suffered for several years, but this winter has been particularly bad for it acting up, not much fun in winter really, can't stand the numbness and tingling!
I get it in all my fingers and toes.

Yes winter sucks so bad. How do you fight against it or keep them warm? Has it spread? My great great grandmother had it so bad she couldn't get out of bed. I would hate for that to be me one day. If I had health insurance I would seek medical attention.

No, it doesn't spread. The body parts effected vary by individual, but typically just include fingers, toes, ears, and nose. "Treating" it is optional, and it would be accomplished with a niacin supplement, or vasodilator (but not for most people, because those are blood pressure medications). Protecting yourself from cold is really all that doctors would recommend.

It does suck, but there are many worse problems to have.

My teen son has Raynauds. For several years he complained of cold hands and tingling and ocassional numbness especially if he went outside without gloves on in winter. He would bring it up to the doctor at his regular check-ups but nothing was ever said about it. When we switched doctors, his new physician recognized it right away and gave us some information about it.

We were told that there was a good chance he'll "grow out of it" but at least it isn't something super serious, at least right now.

You don't exactly grow out of it, but it is significantly effected by hormones, so it shouldn't be as much of an issue once those settle down a bit. Unfortunately for women, our hormones don't really settle down as much. My teens are when I noticed mine as well, though I didn't have a name to put to it until my twenties.

Poop. I came in here hoping to see some hot gifs of Ryan Reynolds. :sad: Sorry to hear about the health issues though...:flowerforyou:

I'm 21, and I've been living with a more sever form of Raynaud's since I was 14. I have a really hard time in the summer, but especially in the winter, I have to limit my time outdoors (and when I am, I wear mittens with hand warmers in them, etc.)

You should probably look into medication. I take a low dose of blood pressure medication that opens up my blood vessels so that my fingers and toes are warmer.

Good luck!

I suffer from it and find every winter gets a little bit worse (I'm 52). Mostly in my fingers/hands but my feet also suffer.
Can even get really cold hands in an office environment now - sometimes just one hand which is really weird.

Went to the Doctor last winter as I was finding motorcycling almost impossible - heated handlebar grips, inner gloves, winter gloves and handlebar muffs still not keep my hands functioning. Her advice was "try to keep your hands warm".
Which really wasn't much help!

When using a desktop computer, in a reasonably warm room, I notice it effecting my mouse hand. Circulation in general suffers with age (not calling 52 old), but a little cardio would help to counter that.

I suffer from it and find every winter gets a little bit worse (I'm 52). Mostly in my fingers/hands but my feet also suffer.
Can even get really cold hands in an office environment now - sometimes just one hand which is really weird.

Went to the Doctor last winter as I was finding motorcycling almost impossible - heated handlebar grips, inner gloves, winter gloves and handlebar muffs still not keep my hands functioning. Her advice was "try to keep your hands warm".
Which really wasn't much help!

When using a desktop computer, in a reasonably warm room, I notice it effecting my mouse hand. Circulation in general suffers with age (not calling 52 old), but a little cardio would help to counter that.

Take my word for it - 52 is old
I do a ton of cardio (training for a 100 mile cycle ride at the moment) and it has no impact on how my hands react to the cold. Did a 25 mile ride yesterday in 8C temperatures and my feet and hands were like ice and very painful.
Reynaulds isn't really poor circulation - it is an inappropriate physiological reaction to mild cold stimulus.

I don't know if I have it but I am suffering from chills that come from the inside and very cold hands, nose and feet.
Especially nose and fingers. I cannot take things out of the freezer without pain and cannot tolerate the cold without gloves on.
The pain can be excruciating!
I don't have fingers that turn blue though.
I also have fibromyalgia and just figured it was part of that.
DR's don't always listen to your complaints if you have fibro or don't fit the textbook definition.
They said since my fingers don't turn blue I don't have it.
Anyway, cold really really hurts!

It's significantly more common in people with fibromyalgia, actually, and your fingers don't have to turn blue to be effected. Sometimes mine are blue, but sometimes they're just pale when it's going on. When mine was diagnosed, my fingers were only pale, but my blood oxygen reading on an effected finger was 47%.

I was diagnosed when we moved from Florida to Massachusetts when I was in my early teens. The doctor at the time, other than telling my mother to take me back to Florida, said that I needed to wear gloves and mittens when I was outside in the cold weather, wear heavy socks during the winter and every day I had to soak my hands and feet in hot water.
As I got older (and gained weight) I didn't have that much of a problem with my hands but they do get cold easily. My feet stayed just as bad as they were, until I tore the flexor hallicus tendon in my right ankle, now when my feet get cold, my right foot will turn in at the ankle, the outside edge of my foot tilts up and my big toe arches back then everything locks up (agonizing pain and it takes a while to get it to release. Dr says that the tendon injury is affected by the reynauds (most likely because it's not just my toes affected by the reynauds, it's the whole foot for me) and it contracts when it's cold.